Bob Dylan

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two or at times, submerged in either.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.